Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 361
e late Aurignacian. The spread of theseidols, which are altogether characteristic of the earlier period ofthe Upper Palaeolithic, is traced eastward to WUlendorf, Aus-tria, and to Briinn, Moravia. Breuils great contention is a certain similarity to northAfrican art, which woidd seem to agree with… … Fig. isq. Statuette inlimestone from the grottoof Willendorf, Lower Aus-tria, attributed to thie lateAurignacian. This fe-male iigurine, possibly anidol and generally knownas the Venus of Willen-dorf, is about four andone-half inches in height.After Szombathi. THE BIRTH OF ART 323 day which are…
Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive
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